Blue Diamond Screw Tent Pegs - 20 pack, Purple, One Size

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We are very pleased with our Bunnings Screw in Pegs, and have recommended them to a heap of people already. Screw In Pegs are a galvanised 200mm-long shaft that accepts an included 5mm hexagonal driver, and both standard drills and impact drivers for great drilling forces. While looking a little agricultural, the cleverly designed wires loop and hook remains on the peg shaft and can be used to attach a guy rope, or to hold a tarp down directly to the ground. A great design idea sees the hook pointing downwards so as not to promote toe-stubbing. Although the Screw In Peg performed faultlessly in harder soils, the performance in anything softer is not much different to a standard peg. The finer flutes on the shaft clogged with dirt, rendering it of little use for ground-holding ability.

I have seen people make these up using long tek screws and washers welded to the top, but for the price that you can buy them I really don’t see why you would. I’ve snapped and bent a couple Anyone found any pegs that screw in with minimum effort and hold? Or can someone explain how they manage with the common screw pegs? The small clips that may be used in conjunction with the screw pegs are extremely handy for different applications. Peggy Peg also do a plastic fibre glass version but I suspect they would disintegrate in a typical hardstanding pitch.

Should you get a set of screw in pegs?

You can manually install some of these, but it takes more time, and unless you are very limited with what you can take, a drill is well and truly worth throwing in. After several years of using these, I finally broke a couple. The first one snapped from too much torque on the drill, trying to go into seriously hard ground, and it basically just twisted the steel off. I had a couple of guys who doubted how secure these pegs would be until I challenged them to join forces and pull them out. Blue Screw offers two plastic pegs at 310 and 580mm long. They are ideal in sandy environments with exceptional high-hold abilities. Blue Screw suggest its pegs work well in snow, sloppy mud and underwater too, which would be ideal for a boat mooring. The rope hook on top is large enough to attach multiple guy ropes. This product is aimed squarely at sand and soft soil use; forget trying to twist it into hard ground – it simply won’t work. As the Blue Screw is so flexible and long, you need to ensure it’s wound all the way in if pulling it at an angle, but works equally as well if screwed in line with the rope pull instead of at an angle, which could bend or twist the shaft beyond its limits.

It is easy to sweep because it is taught across the ground and it is no longer a trip hazard as it was before. I’ve lost count of the number of tent pegs that I’ve bent, or flattened so badly that they’ve snapped from smashing them into the ground. Peggy Peg offers many different lengths and diameters, as well as aluminium and UV reinforced fibreglass pegs. A great design feature is the rope clips that slot over the hex-shaped head onto the main shaft. The clip can be used anywhere on the shaft meaning the peg doesn’t have to be drilled all the way in to still allow a pull from ground level, which will reduce potential peg damage. Attaching to the clip is a guy rope ladder, which replaces the steel spring on most guy ropes. But maybe my insertion technique is wrong. I'm using a cordless drill and even at low speed they don't grip and screw in. So I ended up banging them in. To install them, just use the drill to wind the screw into the ground, at a 45 degree angle, or a little more vertical and hook what you need onto them.A huge number of people travelling these days carry 18V drills, and winding a few tent pegs in and out is easy work. These can double up for winding the caravan or camper trailer legs down, repairs and maintenance on your gear and don’t take up much room.

The main reason for the drill driven tent pegs being so good is they can be used in hard ground. This means crushed limestone, gravel or even compacted dirt is no issue at all. I also managed to drive the Dmax over one of them, and bent it pretty badly, but otherwise they are going well! Where can you buy screw in tent pegs from?Some tents don’t have the ability to hook it over, so you may need to run the screw down in the centre of the loop, being careful that it doesn’t grab the fabric and start to twist it around! These probably take a similar amount of time to put in as a traditional peg, but its less effort, and the removal is where they are really valuable. We use screw in tent pegs to hold the shower and toilet tent down DIY screw in tent pegs Compared to large, traditional pegs, these drill in tent pegs are much lighter, and you get away with much smaller pegs as they provide far more grab into the ground than a traditional peg. I’d have no issues using half size screw in pegs, as long as the ground is solid. Using Screw in Tent Pegs Peggy Peg can even supply long masonry bits to pre-drill holes into ridiculously hard ground. A combo tool can be used to help twist the pegs into the ground should your drill not do the job and there are purpose-designed anchor plates that accommodate up to seven separate pegs for extra ground-hugging force as well as slots to take awning legs.